And further, this Examinate sayth, that about two yeares agon, this Examinate hauing gotten a Piggin full[C_b_] of blew Milke by begging, brought it into the house of her Graund-mother, where (this Examinate going foorth presently, and staying about halfe an houre) there was Butter to the quantity of a quarterne of a pound in the said milke, and the quantitie of the said milke still remayning; and her Graund-mother had no Butter in the house when this Examinate went foorth: duering which time, this Examinates Graund-mother still lay in her bed.
And further this Examinate sayth, that _Richard Baldwin_ of _Weethead_ within the Forrest of _Pendle_, about 2. yeeres agoe, fell out with this Examinates Graund-mother, & so would not let her come vpon his Land: and about foure or fiue dayes then next after, her said Graund-mother did request this Examinate to lead her foorth about ten of the clocke in the night: which this Examinate accordingly did, and she stayed foorth then about an houre, and this Examinates sister fetched her in againe. And this Examinate heard the next morning, that a woman Child of the sayd _Richard Baldwins_ was fallen sicke; and as this Examinate did then heare, the sayd Child did languish afterwards by the space of a yeare, or thereaboutes, and dyed: And this Examinate verily thinketh, that her said Graund-mother did bewitch the sayd Child to death.
And further, this Examinate sayth, that she heard her sayd Graund-mother say presently after her falling out with the sayd _Baldwin_, shee would pray for the sayd _Baldwin_ both still and loude: and this Examinate heard her cursse the sayd _Baldwin_ sundry times.
The Examination of _Iames Deuice_ of the Forrest of _Pendle_, in the Countie of _Lancaster_ Labourer, taken the 27. day of April, _Annoq; Regni Regis Iacobi, Angliæ, &c._ _Decimo: ac Scotie Quadragesimo quinto_: Before _Roger Nowell and Nicholas Banister, Esq._[C2_a_] two of his Maiesties Iustices of Peace within the sayd Countie.
The sayd Examinate _Iames Deuice_ sayth, that about a month agoe, as this Examinate was comming towards his Mothers house, and at day-gate of the same night, [Sidenote: _Euening_] this Examinate mette a browne Dogge comming from his Graund-mothers house, about tenne Roodes distant from the same house: and about two or three nights after, that this Examinate heard a voyce of a great number of Children screiking and crying pittifully, about day-light gate; and likewise, about ten Roodes distant of this Examinates sayd Graund-mothers house. And about fiue nights then next following, presently after daylight, within 20. Roodes of the sayd _Elizabeth Sowtherns_ house, he heard a foule yelling like vnto a great number of Cattes: but what they were, this Examinate cannot tell. And he further sayth, that about three nights after that, about midnight of the same, there came a thing, and lay vpon him very heauily about an houre, and went then from him out of his Chamber window, coloured blacke, and about the bignesse of a Hare or Catte. And he further sayth, that about _S. Peter's_ day last, one _Henry Bullocke_ came to the sayd _Elizabeth Sowtherns_ house, and sayd, that her Graund-child _Alizon Deuice_, had bewitched a Child of his, and desired her that she would goe with him to his house; which accordingly she did: And therevpon she the said _Alizon_ fell downe on her knees, & asked the said _Bullocke_ forgiuenes, and confessed to him, that she had bewitched the said child, as this Examinate heard his said sister confesse vnto him this Examinate.